Giulia Tofana
Giulia Tofana was an Italian professional poisoner. She was famous for selling poison to women who wanted to murder their abusive husbands. She was the inventor of the famous poison Aqua Tofana, which is named after her. The information about her background is sparse. She was born in 1620 in Palermo, during a time when divorce was not a concept which existed. Sons and daughters were married off into loveless, abusive relationships with no possible way of escaping them, not until their spouse's death, nor unless one turns to prostitution and chooses to live with a reputation in shambles. Giulia's home life was not entirely disclosed, however it can be inferred that she was indeed living with an abusive father; she was possibly the daughter of Thofania d'Adamo, who was executed in Palermo on 12 July 1633, accused of having murdered her husband Francis, Giulia's supposed father. She would have been 13 years old at the time of both her parents' murders. Giulia was des